煦

煦

煦 U+7166, 煦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7166 ← 煥 [U+7165] CJK Unified Ideographs 照 → [U+7167]

Translingual

Han character

煦 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日口火 (ARF) or X日口火 (XARF), four-corner 6733₂, composition ⿱昫灬)

References

• KangXi: page 677, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19225
• Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2220, character 17
• Unihan data for U+7166

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		煦
alternative forms		昫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù, xǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ, ㄒㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi², heoi³, jyu², jyu³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hú / hù / ù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁶ / hu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
    • Wade–Giles: hsü³
    • Yale: syǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: heoi², heoi³, jyu², jyu³
    • Yale: héui, heui, yú, yu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey², hoey³, jy², jy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu², hêu³, yu², yu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³⁵/, /hɵy̯³³/, /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/

Note: heoi3, jyu2, jyu3 - alternative pronunciations.

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú / hù / ù
    • Tâi-lô: hú / hù / ù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo, hux, ux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³/, /hu²¹/, /u²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/, /hu⁴¹/, /u⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/, /hu²¹/, /u²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/, /hu¹¹/, /u¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/, /hu²¹/, /u²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hu⁶ / hu³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŭ / hù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³⁵/, /hu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /hɨo^X/, /hɨo^H/

Rime
Character	煦	煦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	況羽切	香句切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨoX/	/hɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/hioX/	/hioH/
Shao Rongfen	/xioX/	/xioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huə̆X/	/huə̆H/
Li Rong	/xioX/	/xioH/
Wang Li	/xĭuX/	/xĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯uX/	/xi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xǔ	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi2	heoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoʔ/, /*qʰos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	煦	煦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7125	7126
Phonetic component	句	句
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	詡	昫
Old Chinese	/*qʰoʔ/	/*qʰos/

Definitions

煦

1. warm
2. kind; gentle; gracious; genial

Compounds

和煦 (héxù) 拂煦 涵煦

煦伏 煦沫 煦煦

溫煦／温煦 (wēnxù) 煦仁孑義／煦仁孑义 煦嫗／煦妪

References

• “煦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

煦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. warm

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: あたためる (atatameru)

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Korean

Hanja

煦 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

1. kind, gentle
2. gracious
3. genial

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Vietnamese

Han character

煦: Hán Việt readings: hú

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